Overview
Facilitates a scientific understanding of up-to-date knowledge on cancer in immunotherapy
Includes information on recent Japanese studies of inflammation, immunity, and cancer
Is written by scientists directly involved in the field
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Table of contents(20 chapters)
About this book
This book overviews cancer immunity from broad scientific fields, based on the concept that cancer is a sort of by-product of infection, inflammation, and host immune response. The innate and acquired arms of the immune system mainly participate in tumor immune surveillance, and their activation is critically modulated by the situation of the tumor microenvironment. Many types of immune cells join the formation of the microenvironment. In particular, macrophages and dendritic cells enter the tumor mass to be main players in the inflammatory milieu of tumors. After introducing these topics, the book discusses immunotherapy for cancer patients as an outgrowth of this concept of infection and inflammation.
With the contributions of leading scientists actively involved in the field of antitumor immunity study, this book encourages readers to understand the mechanism of general cancers based on inflammation and will facilitate prevention and the development of therapeutics for cancer.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Tsukasa Seya, Misako Matsumoto
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Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan
Keiko Udaka
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School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
Noriyuki Sato
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inflammation and Immunity in Cancer
Editors: Tsukasa Seya, Misako Matsumoto, Keiko Udaka, Noriyuki Sato
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55327-4
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55326-7Published: 08 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56336-5Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55327-4Published: 26 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 268
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour
Topics: Immunology, Cancer Research, Oncology